Analogico-Deductive Reasoning (ADR)

Analogico-Deductive Reasoning (ADR) refers to the intersection of Analogical and Deductive reasoning, which often manifests in the form of a hypothesis generation through analogical matching and inference, and subsequent confirmation or refutation of that hypothesis through deductive reasoning. This research program has been centered around this simple idea: that the combination of these two modes of reasoning can explain so much about, and allow us to model much of, human-level cognition.

Several publications have attempted to model ADR in human cognition (see below). More recently, ADR has been incorporated into the hybrid cognitive architecture CLARION and steps have been taken to model ethical and moral reasoning.